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Post by fadgewacker on Apr 6, 2020 16:05:03 GMT -5
Well to be fair I had the over at 21 last week, but the madness stalled thankfully and we only reached 18.
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Post by theduke21 on Apr 6, 2020 16:19:26 GMT -5
Just like last year I had a short stretch of golf that will cost me a chance at a green jacket.
If I just have an average back 9 on Thursday I get to -50 with a chance to win.
Extremely happy with my 58 on Friday. Made up some of the ground I lost on Thursday. My 60 on Saturday was good enough, but definitely felt like it should've been better.
Got to -7 through 9 on Sunday again in those brutal conditions and felt like I was right back in the tournament. But I immediately went bogey-par-par and ruined a great start. But a birdie-eagle-birdie stretch on 13-15 salvaged it a bit and closed with a nice birdie on 18.
-44 in total which was 4 worse than my goal. Imagine I'll grab a top 3 for the third week in a row, which is great. Game, and mostly my putting, is trending in the right direction.
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Post by Brighttail on Apr 6, 2020 17:28:00 GMT -5
LOL.. played a practice round for round 2 to see if I needed to change any clubs and re-familiarize myself with the pins. Welp 2 eagles and 13 birdies later I carded my best ever finish at Augusta. Sadly it doesn't count for crap. Morale of the story is I guess, DON'T PRACTICE!
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Post by theduke21 on Apr 6, 2020 17:28:34 GMT -5
Here are a few highlights from my week, featuring a hole out on 14 and then a trio of hybrids in the very high winds on Sunday.
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Post by gavlaar124 on Apr 6, 2020 18:18:06 GMT -5
Wow! Can only dream of lines that straight!!!
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Post by Brighttail on Apr 6, 2020 18:52:56 GMT -5
Wow! Can only dream of lines that straight!!! I'm still figuring out a 201 hybrid that he can loft up to fly 167 yards with a 2 yard roll out. I mean 166, 5 yards up and into a 16-17mph wind and a 201 club doesn't fly the green?
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Post by catcherman22 on Apr 6, 2020 18:56:47 GMT -5
Wow! Can only dream of lines that straight!!! I'm still figuring out a 201 hybrid that he can loft up to fly 167 yards with a 2 yard roll out. I mean 166, 5 yards up and into a 16-17mph wind and a 201 club doesn't fly the green? and that, my friends, is one of the reasons why very fast winds is broken in this game
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Post by fadgewacker on Apr 6, 2020 19:01:02 GMT -5
I'm still figuring out a 201 hybrid that he can loft up to fly 167 yards with a 2 yard roll out. I mean 166, 5 yards up and into a 16-17mph wind and a 201 club doesn't fly the green? and that, my friends, is one of the reasons why very fast winds is broken in this game Amen Corner derailed any chance I had of posting clear of the chasing pack in R4. Wind HARD off the left barely touched it and that was that... game over. Maybe it changed in the air... but it would’ve had to have been a fast shift. Managed to get to -38 for a current T3. Tough old conditions, but could’ve done without a 6 up 11 and a 4 up 12.
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Post by theduke21 on Apr 6, 2020 19:05:31 GMT -5
I'm still figuring out a 201 hybrid that he can loft up to fly 167 yards with a 2 yard roll out. I mean 166, 5 yards up and into a 16-17mph wind and a 201 club doesn't fly the green? and that, my friends, is one of the reasons why very fast winds is broken in this game That's probably an 18 mph headwind that hurts closer to 24 yards with a normal flight depending on the type of club you hit. And then lofting it up higher and higher will continue to hurt it more and more. I had a pretty big gap from 183 to 201 this week so that was about my only option. And you can get a lot more loft to play with the wind on hybrids than the irons on this game. I don't really see how that's broken. The higher you hit the ball, the more the wind is going to effect it. And it's usually pretty consistent if you guess the wind number right. Just because it doesn't necessarily work how you might think it should doesn't mean it's broken.
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Post by fadgewacker on Apr 6, 2020 19:09:40 GMT -5
That shot of yours up 18, I hit a 203yd 4i from the same distance, slightly different angle and it went 158yds 😂😂😂
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Post by theduke21 on Apr 6, 2020 19:32:37 GMT -5
That shot of yours up 18, I hit a 203yd 4i from the same distance, slightly different angle and it went 158yds 😂😂😂 One reason I went to hybrids recently is I feel like they fly more consistently than the long irons lol. I had long carried nothing but irons along with a driver and 2 wood but the hybrids seemed to have helped me a lot, which I hate because I hate hybrids. But for that shot there it's 184 with elevation and then that wind was probably hurting me about 17 total since it had a bit of crosswind in it. With the uphill slope I don't think I even touched the loft. One thing I've noticed when playing societies live with a friend is the wind number is usually always the same but the direction will change a few degrees for each player. We'll hit the same club with no loft touched and get 10 yard differences at times that could probably only be attributed to wind direction. I'm sure everyone has seen that on drives too where you get outdriven by 10-15 yards despite hitting a fast-perfect right down the middle.
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Post by Brighttail on Apr 6, 2020 20:01:48 GMT -5
That shot of yours up 18, I hit a 203yd 4i from the same distance, slightly different angle and it went 158yds 😂😂😂 One reason I went to hybrids recently is I feel like they fly more consistently than the long irons lol. I had long carried nothing but irons along with a driver and 2 wood but the hybrids seemed to have helped me a lot, which I hate because I hate hybrids. But for that shot there it's 184 with elevation and then that wind was probably hurting me about 17 total since it had a bit of crosswind in it. With the uphill slope I don't think I even touched the loft. One thing I've noticed when playing societies live with a friend is the wind number is usually always the same but the direction will change a few degrees for each player. We'll hit the same club with no loft touched and get 10 yard differences at times that could probably only be attributed to wind direction. I'm sure everyone has seen that on drives too where you get outdriven by 10-15 yards despite hitting a fast-perfect right down the middle. All that is fine. I always found I might take 2-3 yards off a lofted hybrid. With that wind it took off closer to 12-15 yards and didn't roll. Not saying you did anything wrong but I may have to rethink them if they are able to stop on a dime like that into the wind. Never get that with an iron. I stopped using them early cause they suck out of the rough, but I suppose that is the trade off. Don't hit the rough and you are better off for it.
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Post by catcherman22 on Apr 6, 2020 20:43:02 GMT -5
and that, my friends, is one of the reasons why very fast winds is broken in this game That's probably an 18 mph headwind that hurts closer to 24 yards with a normal flight depending on the type of club you hit. And then lofting it up higher and higher will continue to hurt it more and more. I had a pretty big gap from 183 to 201 this week so that was about my only option. And you can get a lot more loft to play with the wind on hybrids than the irons on this game. I don't really see how that's broken. The higher you hit the ball, the more the wind is going to effect it. And it's usually pretty consistent if you guess the wind number right. Just because it doesn't necessarily work how you might think it should doesn't mean it's broken. In no world should a 17 mph head wind cause a ball to fly 34 yards short... nd you couldn't put enough loft on a hybrid to add 10 yards of effect.
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Post by theduke21 on Apr 6, 2020 21:14:13 GMT -5
That's probably an 18 mph headwind that hurts closer to 24 yards with a normal flight depending on the type of club you hit. And then lofting it up higher and higher will continue to hurt it more and more. I had a pretty big gap from 183 to 201 this week so that was about my only option. And you can get a lot more loft to play with the wind on hybrids than the irons on this game. I don't really see how that's broken. The higher you hit the ball, the more the wind is going to effect it. And it's usually pretty consistent if you guess the wind number right. Just because it doesn't necessarily work how you might think it should doesn't mean it's broken. In no world should a 17 mph head wind cause a ball to fly 34 yards short... nd you couldn't put enough loft on a hybrid to add 10 yards of effect. I flew a 201-yard club 171 yards with 17-ish mph headwind. I don't think that's nearly as weird as you think it is. There's quite a few sites online that calculate wind effects on a golf ball. Here's one that says a 17-mph headwind on a 171-yard shot would make the calculated distance 200 yards: linkLofting is a completely different conversation, but obviously the higher I hit the ball into a headwind, the shorter it's going to go ... which makes hybrids a better choice on this game because you can manipulate yardages with wind much easier.
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Post by cseanny on Apr 6, 2020 21:35:41 GMT -5
I don't see any problems with the total yardage. With the same amount of loft my 4i lands 202y with a 99% lie. His shot, with a 97% lie would land 195y, 3y short of the pin with current conditions; 18* 1.6 = 27 + 171 (166+15F up) = 198y adjusted. With a 98.5% lie, considering wind, elevation, and pin distance, his ball would land 198y, which it did. theduke21 Those were nice shots
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